Two T&T me­dia pi­o­neers were in­duct­ed in­to the Caribbean Broad­cast­ing Union (CBU) Hall of Fame at the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s An­nu­al Gen­er­al As­sem­bly host­ed in Bar­ba­dos (Au­gust 18-20).

Deputy di­rec­tor of Re­search at the In­sti­tute of Ma­rine Af­fairs (IMA), Dr Ra­han­na Ju­man, con­firmed that sam­ples of pol­lut­ed wa­ter from the South Oropouche Riv­er have been col­lect­ed for test­ing.

COVID-19, crime and sui­cide have tak­en a heavy toll on mar­ried men, leav­ing be­hind a grow­ing num­ber of wid­ows across the coun­try.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has ac­cused For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers of “gross in­so­bri­ety” over his com­ments on the im­pend­ing ar­rival of US naval as­sets in the south­ern Caribbean and his re­sponse to re­marks by US Vice Pres­i­dent JD Vance, who com­pared crime in Wash­ing­ton DC to T&T.

A for­mer class­mate de­scribed 19-year-old Kav­ish Per­sad as a “fe­ro­cious de­bater” yes­ter­day, as rel­a­tives, friends, and school­mates bid farewell to the Hillview Col­lege schol­ar who died in a car ac­ci­dent along the Beetham High­way on Tues­day.

De­spite ob­jec­tions from se­nior mem­bers of the T&T Red Cross So­ci­ety (TTRCS), Anne-Marie Quam­mie-Al­leyne has been elect­ed the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s new pres­i­dent. Calls to Quam­mie-Al­leyne for com­ment went unan­swered be­fore press time.

De­scribed as a cul­tur­al icon by Jus­tice Min­is­ter De­vesh Ma­haraj, Bri­an “Nyah­binghi” De Four says that while he is haunt­ed by the mur­der of his daugh­ter, it will not de­ter him from spread­ing pos­i­tiv­i­ty through mu­sic and Rasta­far­i­an­ism.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has de­clared T&T’s full sup­port for the Unit­ed States as Amer­i­can war­ships en­ter the Caribbean to tar­get Latin Amer­i­can drug car­tels.

The end of an ex­emp­tion on tar­iff du­ties for low-val­ue pack­ages com­ing in­to the Unit­ed States is caus­ing mul­ti­ple in­ter­na­tion­al postal ser­vices to pause ship­ping as they await more clar­i­ty on the rule.

Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley says re­gion­al lead­ers must en­sure the Caribbean re­mains a zone of peace, and has an­nounced plans to es­tab­lish a Caribbean In­sti­tute for Democ­ra­cy and Po­lit­i­cal Gov­er­nance at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, Cave Hill, say­ing it is crit­i­cal to safe­guard the re­gion’s val­ues.

The body of a man, iden­ti­fied by po­lice as a known drug user, was dis­cov­ered with mul­ti­ple stab wounds late on Fri­day at the aban­doned Clifton Hill Beach Fa­cil­i­ty in Point Fortin.

Deputy Di­rec­tor of Re­search at the In­sti­tute of Ma­rine Af­fairs (IMA), Dr Ra­han­na Ju­man, has con­firmed that sam­ples from the pol­lut­ed South Oropouche Riv­er have been col­lect­ed for test­ing.